Holidays are over, work begins

Summer is beginning here in Aberystwyth, and major changes in my life came after the exam period. Suddenly, I could not use the time that I usually spent studying, so I started to send out CVs, and I was admitted to three jobs within a week.

A hotel receptionist, a worker in the nearby yogurt plant, and a kitchen worker at McDonalds. Aberystwyth is a student town, and when holidays come, most students leave and are replaced by families and busloads of pensioners from all over Wales coming to Aberystwyth for holidays. That’s exactly why I decided to stay in Aber over the holidays and take a full-time job. I have been working some 50 hours a week for about a month and I couldn’t be happier.

The weather is gorgeous in Aberystwyth. I hide from the hot sun at the factory, the hotel and McDonalds in the daytime, and upon returning from work in the evening, I join other students, mostly international ones who have also chosen to spend their holidays over the English Channel, and go to sit in the warm sand by the sea. I find it funny that holidays have just started for most students, whereas for me they have actually ended, given how much I currently work.

Let me now take my leave with this last post and thank the Foundation for its support, which has enabled me to complete my second year. And to salute all readers of my blog, it’s Long Live Labor!